Sarah Palin's Foibles

This is something that really irritates me about the political process. A candidate should not have to be tutored on things like American Policy and
simple geography if they are running for the Vice President of the USA.

I even heard Bill O'reilly say, "Couldn't she be tutored?"

Is this not a complete surrender that the GOP not only lacks myopia, but that their VP choice was a tactic rather than a good choice?

I know she lost, but they are already talking about her revamping the GOP. Based on what? Please inform me...

To be fair, almost every Presidential candidate goes through a pretty massive amount of homework, learning the various stances on polices and what
not. The same applies to international relations.....quickly, what is our policy in regards to Chad in Africa? What about our trade polices with
Bolivia? Are we implementing sanctions against Thailand, if so, why? Are we for or against India being part of the G8? Hardly anyone would know all
the answers that can be posed to candidates nowadays. This especially applies to non Senators. Senators at least get exposed to a lot more of this
stuff and they have staffs and resources for them to research their positions. To expect every candidate to be fully briefed on everything day one of
their campaign is not being fair.

It's too bad this didn't come out during the election. The people really should know these kinds of things before they vote for someone. Her
interview questions were fair. (What do you read?) Not knowing about Africa and NAFTA are inexcusable for a VP candidate.

The GOP is divided right now. There's the Neocon/Palin/evangelicals and then the true conservatives. I hope the true conservatives can take control
of their party again because people like Palin are just going to continue to ruin their reputation. If she runs in 2012, I bet it won't be on the
Republican ticket. I hope they have their ideals straightened out by then.

The choice of Palin absolutely was a tactic. I'm not sure anybody knew or cared what was in her head. It was the whole Pretty, Young, Outsider,
Maverick and Moose-hunter image that they wanted to USE to get votes. I don't suppose it would help to say that I've been saying that from the
MOMENT they chose her...

McCain, having proved his fortitude over the years, was hand-picked to be the 'faux' opposition to the already annointed Obama; pasting Palin all
over that ticket just made the process easier; of course she's a dorkmeiser... that's the point; she was chosen because of that -- not to get
votes, but to repell more votes away from McCain, so the landslide victory would generate such support that the controlling elite could do whatever
they want; and now, no one will dare criticize what those hiding behind Obama will do, for fear of being labelled a racist

polls don't mean a damn thing; they're scripted like everthing else, to present the illusion of parity and diversity; even if that poll did
represent something approximate today, you'll see those numbers crumble slowly as the country slowly forgets about her; poor little Palin was trotted
out and used for a purpose; they're done with her now, and the smearing of her going on in the post-election MSM proves that

This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.